You are right about almost everthing! Sorry for the coment Em Quinta 06 Abril 2006 10:23, Stuart Prescott escreveu: > > Hi! i read your thread, it is not a good thead and possible was write by > > someone who don't have patience to learn something new. You are right about almost everthing! Sorry for the comment But look your conclusion:
"there is nothing in linux land that even comes close to Origin for flexible scientific graphing and data management. That's a pity... linux leads in everything else, but I know very few other people who will put the sort of time in that I have done in trying to get this to work." Regards, Maicon > > As the OP on that thread, I'll jump to my own defence here... I was more > than willing to learn something new -- that's why I was asking for advice > on what was available. Partly, it was a question of finding out what > plotting programs/packages people were using and partly looking at what > other workflows people were using for data management and plotting. > > The problem I had was that none of the plotting utilities I had tried were > compatible with my existing workflow (which I had adopted through the use > of tools such as excel and origin) and most were incompatible with the data > formats that I have the datasets in. (these formats weren't that exotic... > csv or tab delimited with a header row, multiple X columns per file etc) > > My unwillingness was not to learn, I was just unwilling to reprocess > multi-gigabyte datasets accumulated over some years of research and rewrite > all my dataprocessing scriptss so that the utilities that I had tried out > could even read in the data to begin with. Then there were just he plain > bugs in the packages which stopped you from even changing the window size > in which you were looking at a plot > > For the record, I have been using PyX for the six months since that > discussion and I am quite happy with it. It's a steep learning curve > (partly due to the documentation being pretty patchy when it comes to > customising symbols and lines etc and partly through having python as a > pre-req) but I'm liking the results. I've changed my typical workflow to > be .dat + .py = .eps and that is agreeing with me quite well. Importantly, > I haven't had to rewrite several dozen data processing scripts and reformat > my data archive to use PyX. > > Thanks to those who suggested PyX to me both on- and off-list and provided > some useful resources for learning a little python to get it all happening. > I'm sure the little python scripts I've got to assemble the plots look like > a perl person writing python and would make python aficionados cringe, but > they work for me (TM) :) > > Thanks also to those who suggested other tools that I didn't end up running > with... it's all good for the melting pot. > > > Xmgrace is a respectable plot application in scientic comunit and you can > > do all that origin makes and even more ! i recommend !! > > Read my original post. Many years ago I used xmgr for plotting data during > a summer project and quite liked it, but the versions I had used could not > cope with my data sets without a lot of faffing with either pipes or > preprocessing data into temp files. Not going to happen for me until I > change research directions sufficiently fast as to discard all current > datasets and data processing tools. > > > Labpot is a excelente progam to! > > I've not been back to look at labplot and qtiplot since my original > investigation of them and there have been several new releases of them > since I did. Hopefully some of the limitations have been removed since then > (Stefan Gerlach, the developer of labplot tells me that they are fixed in > versions newer than the one that I tested). Given that, they are probably > worth looking at again. (Although now I've settled on PyX, I'm unlikely to > change again for a few years... one can't afford the time to learn a new > graphing tool every few months; at some stage one actually needs to get > some work done rather than adapting to the new graphing package du jour.) > > best of luck with it! > > cheers > Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]